Against the Odds
NYTF Radio
English - March 01, 2020 16:00 - 24 minutes - 16.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsPerforming Arts Arts History theater yiddish musicals goldfaden thomashevsky nytf judaism music history Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode, we continue explore the oral history of the Folksbiene with longtime company member Itzy Firestone. We learn about the Folksbiene in the 1980s as the company navigate a difficult question: How do we preserve Yiddish theatre in a world with fewer and fewer fluent Yiddish speakers?